- Roustam Raza
Roustam Raza, also known as Roustan or Rustam ( _hy. Ռուստամ Ռազա), was Napoleon Bonaparte's famous
mamluk bodyguard . Roustan was an Armenian fromTbilisi , Georgia. In his memoirs Roustam wrote that he was born in Tiflis (an old name ofTbilisi ) and his father Rustam Unan ( _hy. Ռուստամ Հունան) was a merchant. Being born in Tbilisi, Roustam was often erroneously considered as Georgian. [Roustam, mameluck de Napoléon. D'après des mémoires et de nombreux documents inédits tirés des Archives Nationales et des Archives du ministère de la Guerre. [Ed.Hector Fleischmann] . — Paris: Albert Méricant, 1910. — 384 pp. fr icon] [cite news|url=http://www.napoleon-series.org/military/organization/c_mameluks1.html|publisher=www.napoleon-series.org|author=Alexander Mikaberidze|title= The Georgian Mameluks in Egypt|date=September 9, 2001|accessdate=] [Раза Р. Моя жизнь рядом с Наполеоном, в кн.: Рустам. Моя жизнь рядом с Наполеоном. Воспоминания мамелюка Рустама Раза, армянина. / Перевод с французского Григора Джаникяна и Ирины Карумян. — Ереван: Наири, 1997. ru icon]Roustan was kidnapped when he was a child and sold as a slave in
Cairo . One of the local authorities presented a young slave to General Napoleon Bonaparte in 1798. Roustan served as a bodyguard of Napoleon until 1814, when the Roustan married Mademoiselle Douville inDourdan ,France and refused to follow theEmperor in his exile toElba .References
External links
* [http://militera.lib.ru/memo/french/raza_r/index.html Roustam Raza's memoirs online] ru icon
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